Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1881/1901 Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Accession Number: 2009.70.251 Medium: black ink and wash Support: cream wove paper Size: 156 x 90 mm (6 1/8 x 3 9/16") Signature: none Inscription: v.: '5' in unknown hand
The site has been variously identified as Venice, Italy, and Ajaccio, Corsica. It was not, as suggested in Maggs' sale catalogue of 1937, a study for a Venetian etching.